If "Clause" is literal and the numbers are in numerical order from A to N
(where both A and N are known), I would use:
my $longlist = join '|', map { "Clause$_" } (1..20);
If "Clause" is literal and the numbers are not numerical:
my $longlist = join '|', map { "Clause$_" } qw(5 20 3 6 9 11 7 13 19);
If "Clause" is not literal and numbers are unordered:
my $longlist = join '|', 'abcdef3', 'ghijkl7', 'mnopqr4',
'stuvwx2', 'yzabcd9', 'efghij6';
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> Hi,
> Adding Perl to the list of languages... and came across a question of
> loading vars with very long strings...
>
> Actually I am modifiying a prior employee's code and want to make it
> more readable.
>
> currently the code is such:
> my $longlist = "Clause1|Clause2|Clause3|Clause4|...|ClauseN";
>
> I would like to know why I can't make this more readable? Is it because
> newline characters would be added to the mix? I would like to do
> something like this:
>
> my $longlist = "Clause1|
> Clause2|
> Clause3|
> Clause4|
> ...|
> ClauseN";
>
> Please copy me directly on your response. T
>
> Thanks,
> Art Bahrs
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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